Now my study of the Pilates Method focuses exclusively on the order Joe lays out for us. I can’t speculate on why she felt these changes to be necessary, but she is, of course, Romana. The Side Bend was taken out around then too. Circa late 1990s I am told Romana moved a few things around and added the mermaid to the Mat. I should mention that the order I learned from Romana’s Pilates differs somewhat from Joe’s original order. Thanks Romana, I need a good workout that will make me – albeit briefly – a genius. If you learn one new thing every day you will be a genius. So my workouts include a lot of asking questions – investigating internally what the previous exercise has provided as a help for the bear of an exercise I must now tackle – and on a good day, the occasional revelation. It is my belief that by using Joe’s set order of the exercises on both the Mat and the Reformer I can experience in 2013 the full genius of Joe Pilates who died in 1967. Or in an especially challenging exercise that maybe I don’t like, why must I slow my steady pace to the Teaser with the Side Kick Series? Like an actor mining his script for clues to construct the heart and soul of a character I feel it’s my job as a Pilates instructor to look closely at the evidence and investigate fully with body and mind. Jay Grimes insists no detail was left to chance or done by accident in the entire body of Pilates’ work. Joe Pilates toiled his entire lifetime of 80+ years indefatigably tinkering with and perfecting his method. Follow instructions exactly as indicated down to the very smallest detail. Do not sacrifice knowledge to speed in building your solid exercise regime on the foundation of Contrology. What we hear from Joe on the subject: Study carefully. I would surely omit an exercise or two that I don’t like, much to my own detriment. Sans Joe’s order my focus would wane as I deliberated on which exercise to do next. As someone who enjoys following a good rule or two, the structure and prescribed order of the exercises have always appealed to me. I find it hard to imagine the Pilates Mat exercises without Joe Pilates’ structure. Click here for a list of all the exercises in this post!
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